Black Hole Science @never.horse, Corrupted Vessels @flameswallower.bsky.social , It Helps w/ the Blues @bryanonion.bsky.social, & Wake Up! by R Merey were our features. Still got a few of each title, so if you wanted to grab a special print copy, go for it~~! traumbooks.itch.io/the-little-b...

What's annoying? Him getting knocked down a hill? Being the only polite one to the hitchhiker? Getting upset by being cut with an old razor? (and doesn't even freak out as much as the others) Being sad that his jerk friends leave him out of the whole destination of their trip? Justice for Franklin.

Was genuinely shocked to discover that a lot of folks think that Franklin in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is annoying. Second time watching the film, and he's the least annoying of the crew and the only memorable man in the van; honestly, main hero vibes.

A thing to understand about me is that I am very happy being left by myself for hours on end and often prefer it that way. So if I have chosen to interact with you or respond in any way shape or form it really is because I genuinely value you enough to do so.

broke atm, any help would be big here. sorry to be a drain, i hate it.

i said this in a weirdly cagey way for someone who has a published story that's just "renfield wants to fuck count dracula"

Apocalypse Portraits

Watching Vanilla Ice's very bad movie "Cool as Ice", and I misheard his lyric "Then I disappear in a puff of smoke" as "Then I disappear in a public swamp". I really like the idea of Vanilla Ice flexing that he might go missing in a bog

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Yuki Sakamoto.

if you want to support a trans woman today, consider picking up my gay transgender gothic fantasy western 🐱 freya-jn.itch.io/dead-horses

like in all 3, magic returning is partly a metaphor for accepting the weird, fundamentally non-ethical but beautiful mystery of earthly life (Piranesi sorta does this too, & Beagle's Last Unicorn: the unicorns return to *our* world, which still sorta sucks). it's epiphanic but not teleological

would love to read criticism abt the minor strain of fantasy where magic returns to the world--Mirrlees's Lud-in-the-Mist, Crowley's Little, Big, Clarke's JSaMN--esp bc they're *not* inversions of the nostalgic "magic-leaves" story, nor utopian/millennial; they end w a very ambiguous transcendence

How I’ve Been Pronouncing It (Feat. Foghorn Leghorn, my… roommate?)

Reddit is so great

somewhat tangential, but some of the most pleasant conversations i have with artists—frequently on encountering them and their work for the first time—start from observing how they've applied elements and principles of design to produce a given effect in their work.

halschrieve.substack.com/p/new-trans-... someone else (who knows video games) should write longform about Eden II and A/S/L and the trans video game novel/comic but i wrote something to try to get other people to read and discuss these two fascinating books

Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?

every morning has a cost. sometimes its energy, sometimes its fluid ounces of goop. no one knows where the goop comes from but it is certain God will exact his toll

I’m not At All exclusively or even primarily interested in strict formalist criticism, but the culture has me going “my god, we need to bring back formalism stat”

Mostly I have not been sleeping well but I'm currently really annoyed at this critical moment where biographical/historical criticism, the most boring kind of all, is ascendant

Speaking of… MAEJ. High fantasy novel. Long and complex and strictly for nerds and maniacs. I wish you'd read it. Published by @traumbooks.bsky.social back in 2024. But books aren't mangoes, they don't spoil, so maybe still worth reading. traumbooks.com/maej/

No, you can't drink from my shoelaces, they don't produce nectar

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

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i don't know why it is, but i will regularly forget and then remember how to do tasks that i don't do all the time (in fact, needing to do them all the time again is often what prompts the memory).

Tiffany Lamp inspired outfits with my eternal muse,Rose !! ✨

"Anyone interested in (re)turning to the spiritual + awestruck in the poetic but sick of conventional approaches to spiritual poetics needs to read this one, stat." What a lovely review of Never's BLACK HOLE SCIENCE 🌠🌠, thank you @cavar.bsky.social !! 🌠 tinyurl.com/3w35v5db

Very important: I do not want cannibalism or pizza horror stories.

Whoops! Just accidentally posted a call for our food systems horror and Weird fiction anthology, open to submissions this September. 👀 cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

What haunts the Sharps House? And how will finding out change you, destroy you? Read "sharp house" by @spicycloaca.bsky.social and, if you dig it, snag a copy of Gore Poetics, which features this skin-crawling story and many more. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/shar...

I’m not going to say what was what, but a lot of my fiction starts out when I enjoyed another story, but also felt frustrated that it did not do a specific thing I wanted or hoped for (could be on the level of plot, character, theme, or something as simple as “the actual writing kind of sucked”)

If you get mad at THE PITT for not doing what you wanted THE PITT to do, you should try writing your own shit. I mean it! That's an impulse you can put to use instead of just being an entitled fan acting like art exists to meet your desires.

Illuminated Manuscript Creatures ; #7 A long day at the kicking rats out of house factory.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... let mamdani know you would like 0.5% of the city budget for libraries in perpetuity pretty please

i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew

I just re-found this painting, which was in a kid's bible I had growing up. I used to obssess over it, and I'm pretty sure seeing Lucifer here was the first time I thought a man was attractive? Over the years I'd think "it couldn't possibly be as horny as I remember it", but I mean come ON

You know, great turns of phrase in the English language usually require 1.) a talented author with 2.) absolutely no self-consciousness about potentially coming off as corny, melodramatic, or pretentious. YES this post was inspired by re-listening to a Gordon Lightfoot song I liked when I was ten

Inviting everyone to give their very serious predictions for this final episode.

new fundraiser for my fucked up house

Is this engagement bait for parasauralophus fans

if the bluesky devs could load your posts about "vibe coding" they'd be very disappointed

We've updated our WHOLE SHEBANG deal to include Gore Poetics and the Flesh zine. All in all, that's ten horror and Weird fiction ebooks and 19 cursed digital zines for only $28! Support strange, queer, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist indie horror: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...

I loved this collection! Lyrical and visceral as the title promises, precise as a scalpel through your basal ganglia, highly recommended to all sickos and weirdos. Highlights for me included the extremely gutting "Lithopedion" and the beautifully cut-up "SHRIKE"

The cover for my next novel, CHIMERA, is here. Skin dancers, cannibals, kinslayers, monsters. The Vargers are many things, but family always comes first. Cover illustration by Xuanwei Su Cover design by Esther S. Kim Pre-order it here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Claude when you ask how the coding is going